Re: Just checking

Well ....

For me, it's partly abandonment.
I won't be doing new projects in Lasso.

I have two new customers and it's their wish not to have software in Lasso. PHP is ok.
That, and also for their and my sake and future, is why I spent the last three weeks converting my Lasso RAD environment to PHP. Testing is this week.
I kept the same folder and include file structure, the same variable names, the same function names, and the same application-generator - which now generates apps in PHP instead of Lasso. With the help of Sublime Text 3, I could change Lasso code-blocks into PHP in 16 existing Lasso applications all at once. This helped speed up the conversion process a lot.

Thus I can start with the new projects in a more commonly known programming language. When I quit in the coming 4 to 9 years, these new customers will have less trouble in finding someone who knows PHP then finding a Lasso programmer.

Other reasons that fed the decision are the troubles I have had lately with Lasso and the minimal support from LassoSoft in general.
I do understand that it's quite much work to keep the various Lasso versions working on so many flavours of OS's.
And I also do understand that testing everything is difficult.
But I don't understand the minimalistic time commitment to the Lasso product (at least it looks that way).

I already started this conversion process in 2014 by converting my Lasso 8 batch apps to PHP when I made the move to Lasso 9, because things didn't work in 9 as they did in 8 and as I wanted them to work. Since then I use Lasso only for interactive apps.

The final reason that really pushed the decision to move to PHP is that my son's employer has accepted that our current (dying) projects are in Lasso, but new projects should be written in PHP or an equivalent commonly known programming language.
Since my RAD kit got him his job, I'm helping him and his future too, by converting it to PHP, so he can keep on making good stuff in an accepted and known dev-environment.

My current products in Lasso will remain in Lasso as long as the combination of server and Lasso version works.